12:12 AM,
Dec. 16, 2012

Ducks launch from a moist soil feeding area on the Ballard Wildlife Management Area.

Written by

Gary Garth
| Special to The Courier-Journal

Ballard County, Ky., which hugs the lower Ohio River until it spills into the Mississippi, was once touted as the "Goose Hunting Capital of the World."

That is no longer the case, at least not at the Ballard County Wildlife Management Area, an 8,000-acre public haven for waterfowl and the handful of hunters fortunate enough to have been drawn to hunt there.

"We don't get the geese we used to and probably won't," said Robert Colvis, who has worked on the Ballard property for 14 years, the last three as the WMA manager. ...